Researchers quantified the contributions of four different types of convective storms to summer extreme precipitation in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Extreme sea levels will become 100 times more frequent by the end of the century around the world, according to a new study.

Atmospheric Scientist Beat Schmid helped develop a report assessing the scientific need for a new large aircraft at NASA.

An analysis of Panamanian forests found two different sets of correlating hydraulics traits in tropical trees.

Laboratory fellow title given to those who have reached the top of their field and earned international recognition from peers.

Differences in background moisture transport explain how climate variability modes influence the frequency of landfalling atmospheric rivers and their corresponding precipitation.

Sherman Beus, software engineer, Katie Dorsey, communications team writer and editor, and Brian Ermold, data ingest manager, receive 2021 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility Service Awards.

Examining flood occurrences associated with mesoscale convective systems and their characteristics allows researchers to explore climate-flood linkages.

Large ensemble simulations show that aerosols can significantly modify the predictability of hail and precipitation in hailstorms.

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected the Scalable Predictive Methods for Excitations and Correlated Phenomena project to receive funding to develop software for chemical research.

Research into practical systems for chemical energy storage will be a focus at the Energy Sciences Center.

The most polluted U.S. communities from five years ago are still the most polluted today, 50 years after passage of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1970.

Bojana Ginovska leads a physical biosciences research team headed for PNNL's new Energy Sciences Center. She uses the transformative power of molecular catalysis and enzymes to explore scientific principles.

Soil texture and environmental history play a strong role in how different soils respond to moisture extremes like drought and flood.

Researchers used instruments in an airborne lab to characterize aerosol particles and their sources over the remote Eastern North Atlantic.

Seeking a deeper understanding of when, where, and why large wildfires occur using explainable artificial intelligence.

Urban pollution greatly increases the number of particles over the Amazon, mainly through new particle formation controlled by biogenic gases.

A high-resolution dataset captures a more complete view of the global distribution and characteristics of strong storms called mesoscale convective systems.

Rising greenhouse gases and declining aerosols have triggered an approximate four-day delay in rainfall over tropical land and the Sahel.

Research shows that erosional nutrient fluxes linked to extreme rains may complicate efforts to reduce nutrient enrichment in the Gulf of Mexico.